Photographs
from
L.Elizabeth
Lewis
A TRANSCENDENT RELIGIOUS FERVOR MAKES THESE WORSHIPERS APPEAROBLIVIOUS
TOPAIN
The man at the left wears an iron collar held in place by silver-pointed iron needles fastened in his body.
Two
large
silver
pins
arethrust
through
his tongue and a number of small ones through the skin of his forehead. In the center, temple attendants are
snagging
hooks,
with
limes
attached,
into
a
devotee's flesh (see text, page 519). The white-haired zealot at the right sits unflinching while the heads ofslender
spears
areburied
inhischest,
stomach,
and back.